GOP wants news orgs to abandon exit polls

[RebelYell]

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

As a BuzzFlash Reader said: "Gee, let's make it REALLY easy to cheat..."

RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie wants to eliminate exit polls because he says they're not accurate, implying that the final vote was unquestionably correct.

GOP Wants News Organizations to Abandon Exit Polls
by Doug Halonen, TVWeek.com

After early exit polls in Tuesday's election inaccurately suggested that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry would trounce President Bush, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie is recommending that major news organizations pull the plug on the prognostications.

In remarks Thursday at the National Press Club, Mr. Gillespie said he is among those who were stunned by exit poll reports, which leaked widely on the Internet. "I would encourage the media to abandon exit surveys on Election Day and do what we do in the political profession -- look at the precincts and the turnout, see who's turning out to vote," Mr. Gillespie said. "Don't build a model that you try to, you know, build your own thoughts into of what you expect it to be."

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http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04027.html

[Florida_Geek]

1. They are recounting all votes in Ohio,,,

let's see.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

2. How's about we eliminate

voting - and just use exit polls - they seem to be a more honest way to count what actually happens...

[LiberalFighter]

9. How about we eliminate repugs

[aquart]

3. Mr. Gillespie is going to hell.

The people who burned themselves alive today? Their ashes are his.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Mr. "No Chin" Gillespie should go back to building plastic models

[LSparkle]

6. Is that a shot from "Them"?

Prescient movie ...

[KurtNYC]

8. They Live

is the movie - Obey - Consume - Marry and reproduce - Sleep

[LSparkle]

11. That's right!

I thought after I sent that that I had the title wrong. Great movie -- need to see it again soon.

[LisaLynne]

5. Yep, the next logical step ...

to eliminating voting all together and just establishing some sort of weird theocracy/plutocracy/fascist regime.

[obreaslan]

7. Exit Polling gets in the way....

As does that nasty voting thing. The GOP agrees, there are too many problems with electronic voting, so they just want to do away with voting all together.

[papau]

10. EU uses 2 to 3 exit polling orgs for each election - boy are they stupid!

Thank God we have the GOP building confidence in our voting system.

Major media will do well to listen to the GOP

But I guess Major Media listening to the GOP is a given.

[LSparkle]

12. We have got to WAKE UP!

This is getting really serious here ... If exit polls were no inaccurate, why have we used them for decades? Why is it only when there's a BUSH involved in an election, suddenly the exit polls become crap? I am OUTRAGED at this power grab. Ed Gillespie needs to take his chipmunk cheeks and head out to pasture ...

[Blaze Diem]

13. Yes, and first its the exit polls and then its a simple GOP change to the

Constitution and they can select a Foreigner of their choice to reign after Bush is done.
Bets are that Arnie is just the poster boy for this amendment change.
They have some other foreigner in mind for the REAL Presidential job come 2008.
A Saudi?
Bandar?
Maybe Tony Blair will come on over to be our President after the UK fires him. Tony n George...George n Tony...
Who knows, but if the Bush royal reich wants it to happen...It Will Happen.

or else!

TO all you puke voters..buyer beware. you stupid *uckers.

[idiosyncratic]

14. I love this picture from the "apology accepted" site.

[billyskank]

15. I'll bet they do!

Then they can configure the machines to deliver a 65% vote to the republicans every time and who will know any different!

[ibegurpard]

16. And yet the champion exit poll "results"

that show that "moral values" won the day for them. Repukes are an irony-lover's dream.